From: Andrew West (andrewcwest@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Mar 21 2006 - 14:54:59 CST
On 21/03/06, Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Andrew West wrote:
>
> >> Please read my explanation carefully. Unscribe plays a role in the
> >> symptoms displayed by Charmap, to be sure. Charmap could have been
> >> written to avoid Uniscribe's font fallback, and arguably should have
> >> been, which is why I referred to it as a Charmap issue.
>
> > OK, so the fact that exactly the same behaviour (i.e. with Arial
> > Unicode MS selected only Oriya digits are displayed) is seen in
> > Notepad with Uniscribe version 1.409.2600.1106 and later (but not with
> > Uniscribe version 1.405.2416.1 or earlier) is a bug in Notepad ?!
>
> I think the presumption is that Notepad is intended to display words
> (possibly even sentences). On this basis, I think Peter is implying that
> the error is in the *user* for choosing a font without OTL for a script that
> needs OTL.
>
Damned users, why can't they just get their act together!
Andrew
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